COAL AND COKE PRODUCTION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R000500130007-1
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Content Type: REPORT

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i Od-a k~'.t ,q Coal and Coke Production
1. Relative to the bituminous coals of Komlo and the Pecs.
district;
(a)
the average heat value is around 4,700
calories.
(b) In the preparation of Komlo coal for coking, about 30% is
rejected. This operation is carried out partly by hand-picking
and partly by mechanised selection process. About 25-45% is
considered capable of being coked.
With reference to Hungarian coke situation in general;
(c) There is no plant at Pecs producing metallurgical coke.
(d) relating
to the countries of origin of Hu ar 's imports of metallur-
gical coke.
no imports from the Soviet Union have ever taken place.
5. With reference to exploration and prospecting at Komlos
(a) An extensive drilling programme is under way at Komlo.
(b) Efforts in recent years have increased the known reserves
at Komlo very considerably. The completion of the new estimates
of reserves was scheduled for the summer of 1954
approximation for reserves of bituminous coal
at Komlo and the Pecs district is 270-300 million tons. That
is, about 3 times the figure given in the previous estimate of
1946.
(c) No new deposits of bituminous coal have been discovered
anywhere else in Hungary,
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o produce metallur-
6. With reference to Hungary's efforts
g ca coke from ni,erna sources:
(a) The results up to the present have not been sufficiently
successful to make a significant difference in imports of coke.
1. Hungary has no regular source of supply for molybdenum,
cobalt and nickel. Sporadic imports But
the quantities are negligible and cover only a fraction of
Hungary's requirements. The acute shortage of cobalt and
nickel is one of the main reasons for the inferior quality of
alloys produced in Hungary. Very much the same conditions are
known to be in evidence in the other Satellite countries in
Europe.
in a conference
where the shortage of cobalt and nickel =was = on the agenda.
it was frankly admitted that these metals were practically
unobtainable and that the U.S.S.R. was unable to supply them.)
2. Vanadium and lj.nganese
(a) The Hungarians do not at present produce vanadium as a b7-
product of alumina production.
(b) The manganese reserves of Hungary
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1ona ne Yangane se
car7o-n-aTe-ore oxide ore
Urkut mines 35 - 40 million tons 2,000,000 tons
Epleny mines -- 300,000 tons
3. The most recent estimate of iron ore reserves in Hungary
is as follows; -
(a) Iron ore containing 34-52% Fe and 12-25% SiO 2 10-12 m.tons
(b) Iron ore containing 28-35% Fe and 15-27% SiO 2 10 M. tons
In regard to ores under (b), it must be noted that Hungary
possesses no metallurgical capacity for smelting such qualities.
4. No new discoveries of iron ore deposits have been made in
Hungary since 1945.
6. There is only one ore preparation plant in Hungary, namely
that of GYOIYOSOROSZI. That plant handles iron ore and small
quantities of other ores.
URKUT possess a physical washing plant. It is used for
manganese but not for iron ore.
7. The Hungarians are planning to extract iron oxide or "red
muds' from domestic bauxite. Geo-chemical research has been in
progress for some time past. But the results have not been
satisfactory. There is definitely no such production on a
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commercial scale.
9. There have been no shortages of iron ore in Hungary during
recent years.
11. Administrative control over Hungary's iron mines is with
the Directorate for Iron Ore Mining in the Ministry for Heavy
Industry.
12. No iron ore deposits of significant quantity and quality
which may be exploited in the future have been found.
D Petroleum
l.& 2.
The areas and locations where exploration for oil is under
way
3. Drilling is in progress at M~ZOTUR.
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F, . Organisational and General Information
2. Labour shortage and labour productivity in mining:
(a) Labour shortage in industry is general, but it is most
acutely felt in the mining industry and at machine tractor
stations. The latter are insufficiently equipped with
machinery.....
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machinery. But even for what they have the labour force is
inadequate, because every man who had the least idea of indus-
try was in recent years taken away from the land and sent to
factories or to mines. Those who remained at tractor sta-
tions were people who were not "mechanically minded". There-
fore, the results of mechanisation of agriculture are
"ludicrous".
(b) In labour productivity in mining there has been some
partial increase. But in some mines there has been a retro-
gression.
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